Winter series of seven 7pm lectures by scholars on identity, deception, power and local history, free for students and HA members.
The Portsmouth Historical Association is back with its winter lecture series, kicking off at the Park Building on Tuesday 10 November. It's a proper run of talks that stretches from October through to May, so if you're into history, there's plenty to pick from over the next few months rather than just one night to keep in mind.
The programme pulls in scholars from across the field to look at identity, deception, power and local history, and the range is wide: it goes from international affairs down to home-grown stories. Among the speakers is Dr Elisabeth Forster, a lecturer in Chinese history at Southampton University, and Ted Morris, author of Managing Decline: British Foreign Secretaries of the Twentieth Century, whose talk focuses on Portsmouth's own James Callaghan in the role of Foreign Secretary. Peter J Ling also contributes, drawing on his 2024 book After Watergate.
The season closes with the Dr James Thomas Memorial Talk, which honours the late local historian and author of The Seven Years War and Britain's Global Empire. It's a nice way to cap off the series by remembering one of our own.
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Practical side: the talks are held in Room 1.09 of the Park Building, and they all start at 7pm and finish by 8.30pm, so you're in and out in an evening. There's no booking required—you just turn up. It's £4 per lecture, or £20 for the whole run from October to May, and it's free for students and HA members.
